[Snyk] Security upgrade com.google.firebase:firebase-admin from 9.5.0 to 9.7.1

[ThinuwanW]

Snyk has created this PR to fix 2 vulnerabilities in the maven dependencies of this project.

Snyk changed the following file(s):

• backend/pom.xml

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed with an upgrade:

	Issue	Score	Upgrade
	CRLF Injection SNYK-JAVA-IONETTY-14423947	666	com.google.firebase:firebase-admin: 9.5.0 -> 9.7.1 Proof of Concept
	Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling SNYK-JAVA-IOGRPC-13786834	649	com.google.firebase:firebase-admin: 9.5.0 -> 9.7.1 No Known Exploit

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Pull request overview

This PR upgrades the Firebase Admin SDK from version 9.5.0 to 9.7.1 to address two security vulnerabilities: a CRLF Injection vulnerability (SNYK-JAVA-IONETTY-14423947) and an Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability (SNYK-JAVA-IOGRPC-13786834).

Changes:

• Upgraded com.google.firebase:firebase-admin dependency from version 9.5.0 to 9.7.1 in the Maven POM file

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